Celebrating Chavoin Week

Chavoin Week

In Week 10, the College community has enjoyed celebrating Chavoin Week in recognition of our House Patron, Jeanne Marie Chavoin, leading up to Foundress Day on June 30. Jeanne Marie founded the first community of Marist Sisters with a vision for the sisters to live a simple life, with concern and compassion for others. Her values of humility and service areclosely reflected in the values promoted at MSCW. Jeanne Marie’s last words were

‘Always be a bond of union between your sisters’

and this concept of sisterhood and connection has been an important feature of Chavoin House this year.

Chavoin and the College community have come together this week to strengthen connections as ‘sisters’ and to live our House motto, “Excellence Above Glory”. Students began the week by writing pledges on jacarandah flowers which feature on our House crest.
These will be displayed in the Belley foyer. Staff and Year 12 students showed their ‘gifts’ in a friendly and entertaining netball game. A highlight of our week was the ‘Blue Bake Sale’. Thank you to all Chavoin families for your generous donations of baked goods. We were able to raise over $600 for the Marist Missions. Thank you to the students who volunteered at recess and lunch to work on the stall, it was a huge success!

We also had the opportunity to acknowledge and thank our wonderful 2022/2024 Student Leaders (Scarlett Tucker, Jessica Smith, Claudia Khoury) and to welcome our Chavoin Captains for 2023/2024 (Sienna Brown, Elsie Gray, Isabel Dooley).

A very big THANK YOU to all Chavoin students and staff for a wonderful week of celebrations.

Ms Jocelyn Kemp, Acting Chavoin Coordinator